Anyone know of a game that features in game comments of any sort? I’m thinking of adding a feature to my game that allows the players to add comments at the end of each level. Kind of like a High Scores list but open to anyone that finishes the level… more like a guest book or a graffiti wall for players to leave their mark.
I can’t think of one off the top of my head. It’s an exceedingly cool idea though that adds the participation and community that gamers are looking for today. Excellent idea to help differentiate your game!
This should be very easy to do just like highscores: using the WWW class you could even integrate with already existing web solutions.
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Yup, I agree that it should be possible. Run a blog engine on the same site, make a blog post entry for each level you want to support comments. Then you have a field in the game where folks enter those comments and in the background submit that to your blog engine using the WWW class. Similarly you can use the WWW class to retrieve and display the existing comments. A graffiti wall (I’m thinking images) could be done as well I suppose, but it will be harder to make that permanent as you’d need to store many graphical additions.
Interesting idea…
Little Big Planet for the PS3 is the only big one I can think of. If you haven’t seen the videos, it’s sort of like YouTube. Players can comment and rate levels, which allows exceptional user-created content to gain more exposure. Just one of the many cool things they’re doing in that game.
HL2 also had in-game commentary, but that’s a totally different thing than what you’re interested in. It was more like DVD director commentary than a messageboard.
There was a flash series a while back which consisted of a series of rooms you had to escape from. Each room was a mini point and click adventure, and at the end of each you could leave a comment.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/room.php
This might have been the first in the series. I can’t remember.